E-mini

Nasdaq futures down six tenths.

S&P five hundred E-mini is down six tenths after we had a sell-off in Asia.

And gold is down, uh, again this morning after a one percent drop yesterday.

We're down eight tenths of one percent this morning.

And that's why one of the things we also changed on our micro-sized e-mini S&P 500 and NASDAQ options.

We also recently converted those to financially settled as well.

So now we have our traditional future style options that deliver for the E-minis on NASDAQ, S&P, Russell and Dow.

We also now have financially settled S&P and NASDAQ micro E-mini options, trying to give those clients and those, you know, if they're competing or complementary forces in the market, the one takeaway is we have to give more tools to our clients in various flavors of delivery mechanics.

to make sure that when they want to manage their risk, they have all the right tools to do so.

So it's certainly been interesting, and it's been a lot of fun to watch.

MSCI's broadest index of Asia Pacific shares outside Japan was up point five percent, led by a one point two percent gain in the Kospi.

S&P five hundred E-Mini futures were down after a holiday in the US yesterday.

Oil prices moved higher for a third day in Asia, with Brent crude futures edging up one point four percent to over ninety-eight a barrel after hitting a six-week high yesterday.

This comes after Iran threatened to retaliate against any new attacks by targeting energy infrastructure across the Gulf, including US oil and gas interests.

They're the top.

It's U.S. Index E-mini.

And then it's an embarrassment of riches.

S&P, NASDAQ, RUT, whatever floats your boat out there.

And again, I think the next three, maybe five trading days at the most will give you and I some clues about longer term behavior in these equity markets.

Let's see what kind of behavior we are seeing here, listeners.

Is all this bullish upside leading to some flow? Again, usually it's kind of a quiet time of year, but no one told the E-mini.

It's nearly 3 million contracts on the tape already, 2.93 million.

and you've got rates that pressured stocks yesterday, all pretty calm this morning, and so stocks are teetering right on the break-even level as we start the day.

You've got the E-minis close to unchanged.

You've got the NASDAQ down about 0.2% to start the day.

Look, the entire narrative has shifted so rapidly, and that's part of the story too, right? It sort of came out of nowhere.